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Why beauty matters

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Beauty isn’t mentioned very often within churches.  Beauty is quite often pushed aside as being superficial, effeminate, fleeting, and purely aesthetic (which it can be). But if you worship the Creator of heaven and earth, then beauty is inescapable.  Christ himself is described as the ‘beautiful one’. The word ‘glory’ is laced throughout the scriptures [...]

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God’s bias for the City

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Photo by Diez Just as God has a clear bias towards the poor, the scriptures also reveal that God’s heart leans towards the city. From Genesis God calls for humanity to be fruitful and multiply. Not simply to reproduce (otherwise Jesus would’ve done a terrible job with this mandate), but to cultivate life in the [...]

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Teach her who God is

The Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters Group Blogging Project continues. Chapter 8 – Teach her who God is – is brought to you by Juno Award winning recording engineer, photographer, and father of two girls Eugene Huo. ‘A parent’s main job is not to be a parent, but to be a person.’ The moment we understand [...]

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What about Norway?

In my earlier post on the demise of Europe (as we know it) and the related video, there have been a number of comments regarding how it’s due to us turning our backs on God. My friend Veemak just sent me this below cartoon. Click it to enlarge. What do you think?

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Confession: I read the entire twilight saga

Six months ago when my back snapped and I was confined to bed, I read through the entire twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.  Actually I listened to the audiobook, but still, I had to endure the endless teeniebopper descriptions of Edward Cullen’s great physique.  (ie. ‘his body shone like diamonds in the sun’, enough to [...]

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God at the Taco Bell…

I was lining up for the Tuesday special at Taco Bell, and overheard the lady next to me making her order with what seemed like forced extra-polite English. I looked over and noticed she was an older Asian lady, and figured she must have immigrated here not too long ago, and imagined what a difficult [...]

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Can the church become post-racial

I totally connect with this conversation. It aches me incessantly how divided the church remains… but I’m totally stoked about the opportunities and the journey ahead. What do we need to start doing today to get this right?

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Hoping for the death of your child…

A heart-wrenching story coming out of Toronto. (See the Toronto Star article) Two babies are in intensive care, one that will only survive if given a new heart;  another with a strong heart, but no chance of survival. The latter child, Kaylee, was taken off life support, so that her heart could be donated to [...]

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